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Study Guide Hollywood Wants Your Money STUDY GUIDE HOLLYWOOD WANTS YOUR MONEY... AND YOUR MIND KEY TERMS: activists propaganda social justice influence traditional American values NOTE-TAKING COLUMN: Complete this section during the CUE COLUMN: Complete this section video. Include definitions and key terms. after the video. Why was the abortion episode of Maude a ‘watershed What is the relationship between moment’ for television? Hollywood content and the progressive agenda? How did the show Will & Grace impact the way Americans think about same-sex marriage? What is so worrisome about Hollywood content creators being so heavily biased towards one side of the political spectrum? How many hours a day do teenage boys spend in front of screens? WWW.PRAGERU.COM DISCUSSION & REVIEW QUESTIONS: • Towards the beginning of the video, Mr. Shapiro, when describing television, reveals the insidious fact that, “Not only does it reach hundreds of millions of people with its messaging, it embeds that messaging in seemingly innocuous stories… And just as Americans didn’t think much about the carcinogens in the cigarettes they smoked for decades, most Americans don’t think much about the toxic politics in the television they watch.” Why do you think that television content creators embed messaging into their content? Explain. Do you think most Americans care that there is messaging in their favorite shows? Why or why not? • Mr. Shapiro goes on to note that, “I spoke with nearly a hundred members of the Hollywood community when I wrote my book, Primetime Propaganda – and many of them openly admitted that they inserted “social justice” messages into their shows.” Do you think it is morally acceptable for the Hollywood community to insert politics, especially ‘social Justice’ politics, into their content? Why or why not? Do you think that First Amendment arguments of freedom of expression should apply to Hollywood content? Explain. • When describing the machinations of how Hollywood content creators purposefully attempt to influence viewers, Mr. Shapiro explains that, “Hollywood writers, producers, directors and actors create characters we keep wanting to spend time with, then have those characters act in ways most of us would judge wrong.” Do you agree with Mr. Shapiro’s presumption that most of us would judge what many of the characters do as ‘wrong?’ Why or why not? Does the argument that ‘having characters act in unconventional ways, say having a young gay girl stand up to an unaccepting and emotionally abusive father, is actually empowering’ counter Mr. Shapiro’s point or not? Explain. • Later in the video, Mr. Shapiro points out that, “…it hasn’t always been this way. For decades Hollywood promoted traditional American values. That changed, as did so much else in the late 1960s and ‘70s, when Hollywood stopped celebrating American values and started transforming them.” What factors do you think contributed to Hollywood swinging so wildly from a conservative, pro-American viewpoint in its content to a hard-core leftist, anti- American agenda? Why do you think that Hollywood progressive wish to transform American values? Explain. • Towards the end of the video, Mr. Shapiro warns, “My point is that Hollywood has had a tremendous influence on our culture; and that influence has been all to the left side of the political spectrum. …remember that the people making TV don’t merely want to entertain you; they want to influence you. They want you to think like they think. And unless you’re aware of what they’re trying to do, chances are you will.” Do you think that there is anything necessarily wrong with Hollywood content creators wishing to influence the masses of viewers to think like they, the content creators, do? Why or why not? How successful do you think that the Hollywood propaganda creators are now, and how successful do you think that they will be in the future? Explain. WWW.PRAGERU.COM EXTEND THE LEARNING: CASE STUDY: Hollywood Bias INSTRUCTIONS: Read the article “TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda,” then answer the questions that follow. • What does the creator of Golden Girls think of conservative people? Why didn’t Dwight Shultz get the part he auditioned for in St. Elsewhere? How does Doug Herzog characterize the relationship of MTV to young people? What does Fred Silverman say about comedy TV today? How did the producer of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In use the show? • Do you think that Hollywood content creators have too much power over the American public? Why or why not? Do you think that the Hollywood content creators should politically balance their messaging? Why or why not? Do you think that there should be some check on the power of Hollywood or some way to mitigate the tremendous influence that Hollywood has over so many people? Explain. • Which specific points made in the article support the points made in the video? Which examples in the article are supporting evidence for Mr. Shapiro’s main point in the video? QUIZ HOLLYWOOD WANTS YOUR MONEY... AND YOUR MIND 1. As big as the Internet has become, ____________ is still king. a. education b. government c. Hollywood d. Disneyland 2. Scientific studies suggest that watching TV _________________________. a. makes you smarter b. can increase your salary c. acts like a “habit-forming drug” d. reduces the risk of cancer 3. Hollywood has __________________________. a. been a breeding ground for conservatism. b. kept liberal values from spreading throughout American culture. c. had a tremendous influence on our culture d. None of the above. 4. How did the TV show Will & Grace have a major impact on how Americans think about same-sex marriage? a. It caused new legislation to be drafted prohibiting same-sex marriage. b. It didn’t make a major impact. c. It shamed same-sex attraction. d. It paved the way for a much wider acceptance of same-sex marriage. 5. For decades Hollywood promoted traditional American values. a. True b. False WWW.PRAGERU.COM QUIZ - ANSWER KEY HOLLYWOOD WANTS YOUR MONEY... AND YOUR MIND 1. As big as the Internet has become, ____________ is still king. a. education b. government c. Hollywood d. Disneyland 2. Scientific studies suggest that watching TV _________________________. a. makes you smarter b. can increase your salary c. acts like a “habit-forming drug” d. reduces the risk of cancer 3. Hollywood has __________________________. a. been a breeding ground for conservatism. b. kept liberal values from spreading throughout American culture. c. had a tremendous influence on our culture d. None of the above. 4. How did the TV show Will & Grace have a major impact on how Americans think about same-sex marriage? a. It caused new legislation to be drafted prohibiting same-sex marriage. b. It didn’t make a major impact. c. It shamed same-sex attraction. d. It paved the way for a much wider acceptance of same-sex marriage. 5. For decades Hollywood promoted traditional American values. a. True b. False WWW.PRAGERU.COM https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-executives-admit-taped-interviews- 193116 TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda 5:00 AM PDT 6/1/2011 by Paul Bond Warner Bros. "Friends" In clips that will hit the Internet to promote a new book, producers including "Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman and "House" creator David Shore say Hollywood discriminates against and belittles conservatives. Some of TV’s top executives from the past four decades may have gotten more than they bargained for when they agreed to be interviewed for a politically charged book that was released Tuesday, because video of their controversial remarks will soon be hitting the Internet. The book makes the case that TV industry executives, writers and producers use their clout to advance a liberal political agenda. The author bases his thesis on, among other things, 39 taped interviews that he’ll roll out piecemeal during the next three weeks. The Hollywood Reporter obtained several of the not-yet-released clips, embedded below. Each contains a snippet of an interview, usually some historical footage of the TV shows the interviewee was responsible for and, naturally, a plea to purchase the book, “Primetime Propaganda” by Ben Shapiro and published by Broad Side, an imprint of HarperCollins. In one video, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman says that when she cast Candace Gingrich-Jones, half-sister of Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as the minister of a lesbian wedding, “There was a bit of ‘fuck you’ in it to the right wing.” Kauffman also acknowledges she “put together a staff of mostly liberal people,” which is another major point of Shapiro’s book: that conservatives aren’t welcome in Hollywood. Maybe that’s because they’re “idiots” and have “medieval minds.” At least that’s what Soap and Golden Girls creator Susan Harris thinks of TV’s conservative critics. However, the ranks of dumb right-wingers has dwindled, according to Harris, whose video has her saying: “At least, you know, we put Obama in office, and so people, I think, are getting – have gotten – a little bit smarter.” Some of the videos have executives making rather obvious revelations, like when Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds talk about pacifist messages in M*A*S*H or when MacGyver producer Vin Di Bona says anti-gun messages were a recurring theme in that show. But an additional video has Di Bona, who also created America’s Funniest Home Videos, becoming remarkably blunt about his approval of a lack of political diversity in Hollywood. When Shapiro asks what he thinks of conservative critics who say everyone in Hollywood is liberal, Di Bona responds: “I think it’s probably accurate, and I’m happy about it.” Another video has Leonard Goldberg — who executive produces Blue Bloods for CBS and a few decades ago exec produced such hits as Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels and Starsky and Hutch — saying that liberalism in the TV industry is “100 percent dominant, and anyone who denies it is kidding, or not telling the truth.” Shapiro asks if politics are a barrier to entry.
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